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On 15/10/2019 16:41, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > Hi all, > > It has been communicated to me that the FSFE e.V. annual meeting > discussed motions abusive to two volunteers. There were already some > hints about this on the Fellowship list. > > In over 20 years doing free software, I've never seen anything so > hideous. I sincerely hope that this email turns out to be fake news but > I have seen enough evidence to suspect the reports are accurate. > > The two volunteers have been committed to Free Software throughout their > entire professional lives. > > The nature of the motions are purely destructive and intended to cause > personal harm. They bring no benefit to free software. The documents > I've seen show only one thing: a vendetta. > > Multiple GA members have resigned. Other members and staff are > contemplating a similar response. The resignations may not appear > publicly but you will be able to detect them when their names are > removed from the FSFE e.V. "Team" page: > > https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://fsfe.org/about/team.en.html > > When other organizations have pursued similar courses of action, > including vendettas and other gross acts of bullying it has led to > physical violence, suicides and other acts that have done far more than > simply bringing the organization into disrepute. The information I've > been shown suggests that some members of FSFE e.V. seek to take the > organization down that path. People have speculated this vendetta is > being pursued with the zealousness of the final solution, which is a > horrible analogy but nonetheless it reflects the entirely destructive > intentions. > > Abusing a volunteer is incredibly serious. There is no positive > outcome, the only question is how much harm will FSFE do now. The > organization will also suffer increased cost and inconvenience when > staff members quit and sponsors withdraw. > > If these reports are true, then I would reconsider my previous call for > Matthias Kirschner to resign, it would be better for the whole > organization to be disbanded. > > Regards, > > Daniel > > > _______________________________________________ > Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.fsfellowship.eu/mailman/listinfo/discussion > _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fsfellowship.eu/mailman/listinfo/discussion
